[CQ-Contest] Fwd: Topband: Fwd: The 18th Stew Perry TopBand Challenge

[Lew Sayre]

Hello 160M Operators, Contesters, DXers and Mutants,
     The Boring Amateur Radio Club reminds you of the upcoming
Stew Perry TopBand Distance Challenge happening Dec. 28-29.
This contest is unique and adheres to very fair and thoughtful rules
which are found at:
  http://www.kkn.net/stew/
      The basic idea is that you make more points for contacting a very
distant station as compared to contacting a closer one. Plus you get
extra points for contacting low power and qrp stations.  Multiply those
ideas times many contacts and you make a good score and
have a good time while doing it.
     The Boring Amateur Radio Club also encourages the radio combatants
to come up with categories of operating that is important to the
contesters.
$60 is the cost to sponsor a plaque that will be vigorously fought over. The
Radio Operators listed below are heroes who have proposed a
category for a plaque for the 2013 edition of The Stew Perry. If you meet up
with one of these stalwarts be sure to thank them and offer to buy them
a beverage. If you meet up with two of them, then that makes a party.

Sponsor           Category

KL7RA             Top # of QSOs
KL7RA              Top Score,S/O, North America
W2GD Team     Top # NA+SA QSOs by EU Station
TF4M                Longest Distance QSO- both ends get a plaque-
TF4M                Top Score 160M mobile (station has to be able to move)
N0TT                 Top Score <21 years old with > 200 QSOs
N5IA                  Most Grids worked
N5IA                  Top Score Daylight only( use a second call)
KH6LC               VL/ZL Challenge- Top Score VK/ZL
K5WA                Top Score S/O, Low Power, Americas
K5WA                Top Score S/O, Low Power, Europe
NA0Y                 Top Score USA
TF3KX                Aurora Borealis Award- Top Score N of 60N
                                geomagnetic latitude
CE1/K7CA          Top Score Southern Hemisphere
CE1/K7CA          Top Score Japan
K1EP                  Top Score First Time Entrant
K2PO                  Top Score,S/O, Low Power Zone 3
K6ND                  Top Score World- K6SE Memorial
W7RH                 Top Score, Low Power, Asia
K7FL                   Top Score 100% Search and Pounce
VK6VZ                Highest # of contacts made by N. Hemisphere working
                                 S. Hemisphere. -Winner gets Flying Doctors
                                 of VK baseball hat

     We sometimes field questions about the timing of The Stew Perry TopBand
Distance Challenge. It is held this time of year due to the physics of radio
propagation- not because we are anti-holiday.
     We understand that the crafty, wise 160M Op who wants to participate in
this fine radio contest needs to plan carefully his/her December time to
get the
14 hours necessary to operate in this friendly contest.
     If you'd like to sponsor a plaque or discuss a plaque idea then please
email
me at the address below. We appreciate good taste and measurable endpoints
for the plaques.
     More epistles will be sent to the reflectors about The Stew Perry
TopBand
Distance Challenge sponsored by The Boring Amateur Radio Club as indicated.
     73 and I remain,
    Lew   w7ew
The Boring Amateur Radio Club Plaquer
w7ew at arrl.net